Two football players in a Texas high school tackled a referee from behind and are generally expressing regret but are expecting clemency because they claim their coach told them to do it.
This is specifically the 'camp guard phenomenon' and the Milgram experiments on obedience address it specifically in terms of the limits to things people will do when an authority figure tells the subjects to do them. (Simply Psychology: The Milgram Experiment)
The following article, "Schindler's List" - Shoot Her, is another version of the same thing in which obedience permits the potential for unbelievably beastly behavior in people. These are not pretty articles but it's an evil subject with limitless potential to get worse, as we've already seen in history.
If these football players had killed someone, they would be arrested for murder and prosecuted as adults. For some reason, it's supposed this is different for a criminal assault.
Note: we're assuming there's no need for a link to the video because it's all over the Internet showing how they sucker-punched him by hitting him in the back. He had no idea it was coming.
Part of the pitch for clemency is they're just kids but, from the very first Western movie or TV show you ever see, you know the lowest, most yellow belly thing a cowboy can do is shoot a man in the back. This kind of hit in football could easily have broken the man's back as the spine isn't supposed to bend that way.
Rewarding mindless obedience will only create more of it and you see the consequence of what came here. You can see in history what happens when it escalates.
In the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the soldier is forbidden from following an illegal order. A direct order does not give absolution if it was for the purpose of something illegal.
The coach has already been tried and found guilty by the Internet but why does anyone believe these monsters who have shown they can willingly hit a man in the back, not once but twice; the referee was already down when the second one jumped him. What possible credibility do they have.
Answer: zero.
This extends out to the Pledge of Allegiance as it's another tool of obedience which is little practiced anywhere else. This one probably outrages people as they likely feel it questions patriotism but what patriotism is it to go through some silly ritual. Animals can be taught to do such things ... but to what purpose.
Tip: usually the purpose involves Sea World.
My disobedience is my patriotism because America needs my dissent more than it ever did. Otherwise, you all just keep going along and going along and it just keeps on slip sliding away.
There's one kind of faith which you know means nothing whatsoever because it's blind to everything else also.
This is specifically the 'camp guard phenomenon' and the Milgram experiments on obedience address it specifically in terms of the limits to things people will do when an authority figure tells the subjects to do them. (Simply Psychology: The Milgram Experiment)
The following article, "Schindler's List" - Shoot Her, is another version of the same thing in which obedience permits the potential for unbelievably beastly behavior in people. These are not pretty articles but it's an evil subject with limitless potential to get worse, as we've already seen in history.
If these football players had killed someone, they would be arrested for murder and prosecuted as adults. For some reason, it's supposed this is different for a criminal assault.
Note: we're assuming there's no need for a link to the video because it's all over the Internet showing how they sucker-punched him by hitting him in the back. He had no idea it was coming.
Part of the pitch for clemency is they're just kids but, from the very first Western movie or TV show you ever see, you know the lowest, most yellow belly thing a cowboy can do is shoot a man in the back. This kind of hit in football could easily have broken the man's back as the spine isn't supposed to bend that way.
Rewarding mindless obedience will only create more of it and you see the consequence of what came here. You can see in history what happens when it escalates.
In the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the soldier is forbidden from following an illegal order. A direct order does not give absolution if it was for the purpose of something illegal.
The coach has already been tried and found guilty by the Internet but why does anyone believe these monsters who have shown they can willingly hit a man in the back, not once but twice; the referee was already down when the second one jumped him. What possible credibility do they have.
Answer: zero.
This extends out to the Pledge of Allegiance as it's another tool of obedience which is little practiced anywhere else. This one probably outrages people as they likely feel it questions patriotism but what patriotism is it to go through some silly ritual. Animals can be taught to do such things ... but to what purpose.
Tip: usually the purpose involves Sea World.
My disobedience is my patriotism because America needs my dissent more than it ever did. Otherwise, you all just keep going along and going along and it just keeps on slip sliding away.
There's one kind of faith which you know means nothing whatsoever because it's blind to everything else also.
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone - somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting so long - somebody holds the key
Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
Come down on your own and leave your body alone - somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years - somebody holds the key
Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
I'm wasted? No, the song isn't about me. It's about America.
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